St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-29

| Dr. WOOlfOrd Nelson, Of New York, who
has Just returned from Germany, says n
was assured by physicians and other gentle
men who had trustworthy sources Of infor
nation that the condition of the Crow
Prince Frederick is unquestiOnably precar
ious. It is admitted now that he is suffer
ing from cancer of the throat, known as to
bacco smokers cancer. The case is very
similar to that of General Grant. The Sc
we're caustics used have destroyed not only
the tissue primarily affected, but the parts
themselves.
Rev. DR.. David r. Kerr, editor of the
United Presbyterian, has died at Pittsburg
He was in his SEVENTEEN year.
Colonel T. P Pierce was stricken with
apoplexy in Nashua, N. H., while acting as
chairman at reception to the Amoskeae
Veterans of Manchester, and died very
shortly after. He was a relative of Presi-
dent Pierce.
Philip Titus Hart, who was United States
consul at Glasgow under President Pierce,
died in Bloomfield, N. j., at the age of
eighty years.
1t is said that the lead smelling firms of
the West are about to organize as the Ma
tional Lead Trust Company, with headquar-
tiers in st. Louis, to sustain the American
lead market. W. H. Gregg, president of the
| Southern White Lead Company of St. Louis,
said that his concern would not enter the
| trust and that he knew of five Of the largest
| white lead companies in the United States
that are not in the trust and has reason to be-
| lleve that many others were not. He named
the Collier Company, of ST Louis; the At
lantic White Lead Company, Of New York !;
John I. Lewis & Brother, of Philadelphia,
and the Eckstein White Lead Company, of
Cincinnati
The Illinois State board of equalization
met in Springfield and adopted the report of
the committee on assessment on railroad
property. 1t shows grand total of So, 500, 600
more than last year.
The State bank commissioners of Con-
necticut have notified the Stafford Springs
Savings Bank that they find no loss arising
to the institution from the defalcations of the
recent cashier of the Stafford National Bank,
aside from what may occur from the depre
citation of the stock Of the national bank
which the savings bank holds; and they
dCCiI1 IL lIc DtSl IIlIeItSt VI tuc ucptSllolS
that the doors of the savings bank should be
opened, and believe that, with careful man
agement, the depositors will not lose dollar
Of their deposits.
The collector in Philadelphia recently
assessed duty of ten cents per pound on an
importation of wOrsted waste, which the
importers claimed to be dutiable at the rate
of ten per cent. ad valOrem as waste not spe-
cially provided for. The matter was sub
mitted to the Treasury Department, and
Assistant Secretary Maynard says that the
article in question appears to be garnetted
thread waste now held to be dutiable at the
rate of thirty cents per pound as secured
wool. He instructs the collector in case the
merchandise still remains in his custody to
reclassify it accordingly, and TO collect the
balance due upon it. In case the mer-
chandise has passed out of his hands, the
original classification will remain un-
changed
A gentleman, recently married in Canada
applied to the Treasury Department to allow
his wedding gifts to be admitted into the
United States free of duty as the personal
and household effects of person arriving
in the United States. The department held
that as the household effects, such as vases,
clocks, decorated china and silverware, had
been in use for less than one year they are
subject to duty, and only the real personal
effects are exempt from duty.
The Treasury Department has sustained
the action of the collector at Baltimore in
assessing duty on certain wild animals i'm
+oI E,-,
them to menageries. 1t was claimed that
they were entitled to free entry as animals
specially imported for breeding purposes
The importation consisted of one antelope,
one ibex, two young bears and female
tiger.
A foreign corporation, the Matador Land |
and Cattle Company, incorporated in Scot
land with a capital of 81, 100000, has applied |
in Austin, Tex, for the filing of its charter
to do business in the State The Secretary
Of State referred the company to the opinion
Of Attorney General Hogg, who holds that
he State comfy does not extend so far that
4 State will allow foreign corporation to
exercise any extraordinary franchise or to
10 any act contrary to the laws or the public
policy of the State, as indicated by it's legisla-
ion. This company certainly proposes to
exercise extraordinary franchises not COM
'atible with the public policy of this State in
is prime purpose to own and improve land.
t would hardly be reasonable that foreign
corporations should acquire or maintain
more than the ordinary privileges of domes-
ic ones. A domestic corporation could not
harter for the purpose of purchasing and
wning real estate in Texas when such is
heir main purpose. He advises the Secre-
ary of State not to file the charter of the |
ompany.
Assistant Attorney General Montgomery,
f the Interior Department, has gone to Cali
Drnia, under instructions from Attorney
'eneral Garland, to represent the govern
lent in the prosecution of what is known as
ne Benton Syndicate. The indictments
gainst the members of this syndicate for
entry of large tracts of land in
outhern California were quashed by the
1urts, and it is the opinion of the Attorney |
eneral that perhaps the indictments were
OF properly drawn. Mr.. Montgomery has
n intimate knowledge of Spanish and Mexi-
IN law which largely enters into the con-
deratiOn Of the nntri, :
-Four men employed at the mines of the
udSOn Iron COmpany in West Stock hridoo